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Zimmerman has found a new career stealing the work of others and claiming it as his own.
The Zimmerman “painting”.
The remarkably similar Rick Wilson AP photo.
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Kragar Thu, Jan 23, 2014 8:55:16am |
Looks like someone barely learned how to use Photoshop.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 9:16:16am |
re: #2 Kragar
Looks like someone barely learned how to use Photoshop.
He learned it well enough to make $100,000 last time. I wonder what he’ll get for this one?
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sauceruney Thu, Jan 23, 2014 9:22:25am |
If only he’d get sued by the copyright holder.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 9:26:51am |
re: #4 sauceruney
If only he’d get sued by the copyright holder.
That’s why he’s called “invincible”. He gets away with murder, he gets away with domestic abuse, he stiffs his lawyer for millions, and he gets away (and profits handsomely) from theft of copyright.
Hell, I’d be willing to bet that the copy of Photoshop he uses is pirated as well.
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Kragar Thu, Jan 23, 2014 9:45:19am |
George Zimmerman is to art what Shia Lebouf is to screenwriting
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Dr. Matt Thu, Jan 23, 2014 11:07:01am |
re: #3 Skip Intro
He learned it well enough to make $100,000 last time. I wonder what he’ll get for this one?
Has the buyer been revealed?
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 23, 2014 11:44:12am |
re: #3 Skip Intro
He learned it well enough to make $100,000 last time. I wonder what he’ll get for this one?
As somebody said the last time (Krager, I think), this is a perfect way to actually transfer / launder money. No doubt there will be some conservative group ready to bid it up.
I wish I wasn’t raised right, it would be so easy to fleece the right wing nutjobs.
RBS
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ObserverArt Thu, Jan 23, 2014 11:57:37am |
Not to defend an idiot like Zimmerman, but many times illustrators/painters will use images in the media as reference material. Especially if they are in the public domain after many years in history. However, it is all for reference not straight up copying. And many times there will be other backgrounds or themes, distortion of the character to make a point, etc. And, many times they will ask for the okay to do so from the owner of the image.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 12:01:53pm |
re: #9 ObserverArt
Not to defend an idiot like Zimmerman, but many times illustrators/painters will use images in the media as reference material. Especially if they are in the public domain after many years in history. However, it is all for reference not straight up copying. And many times there will be other backgrounds or themes, distortion of the character to make a point, etc. And, many times they will ask for the okay to do so from the owner of the image.
But what they don’t do is sign the work as their own.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 23, 2014 1:20:59pm |
re: #10 Skip Intro
But what they don’t do is sign the work as their own.
The brushwork is Zimmerman’s own. As such he can sign it.
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sauceruney Thu, Jan 23, 2014 1:26:11pm |
re: #11 Dark_Falcon
I don’t recall that being the case for Shepard Fairey when he lifted that AP photo as a reference for his famous HOPE poster of Barack Obama.
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Strangeite Thu, Jan 23, 2014 2:23:21pm |
re: #12 sauceruney
I don’t recall that being the case for Shepard Fairey when he lifted that AP photo as a reference for his famous HOPE poster of Barack Obama.
The law allows for transformative work, the AP and Fairey settled out of court and the terms were sealed.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 3:01:33pm |
re: #11 Dark_Falcon
The brushwork is Zimmerman’s own. As such he can sign it.
There is no “brushwork” other than the signature. It’s a pure digital manipulation, falsely claiming another person’s work as his own.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 23, 2014 3:46:40pm |
re: #14 Skip Intro
There is no “brushwork” other than the signature. It’s a pure digital manipulation, falsely claiming another person’s work as his own.
I thought it was a painting, not a print.
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jaunte Thu, Jan 23, 2014 3:51:27pm |
This content is intended for editorial use only.
For other uses, additional clearances may be required.
It’s a copyright violation.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 3:56:59pm |
re: #15 Dark_Falcon
I thought it was a painting, not a print.
When did Zimmerman learn to paint? And why do both his “paintings” look exactly like copyrighted works from the AP and Shutterstock run through a Photoshop filter?
There was - probably still is - a video of a guy making the exact same flag image as Zimmerman did using the stolen image and Photoshop.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 3:58:32pm |
re: #16 jaunte
It’s a copyright violation.
As was the last one. Somehow, even with all the publicity and large sale price that one received, he apparently got away with it.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 4:01:13pm |
re: #19 Shvaughn
He’s really good at getting away with crime.
It’s my understanding that he may not get away with this one.
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No Country For Old Haters Thu, Jan 23, 2014 4:17:33pm |
re: #3 Skip Intro
He learned it well enough to make $100,000 last time. I wonder what he’ll get for this one?
He’d be foolish to not grift the wingnuts when they’re lining up to be conned.
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Skip Intro Thu, Jan 23, 2014 7:39:44pm |
OH-OHS.
Former Times-Union photographer hires attorney for possible lawsuit against George Zimmerman
Former Times-Union photographer Rick Wilson hired an attorney Thursday for a possible lawsuit against George Zimmerman for using one of his photos without permission.
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BusyMonster Fri, Jan 24, 2014 6:15:13am |
re: #11 Dark_Falcon
The brushwork is Zimmerman’s own. As such he can sign it.
There’s no brushwork, sorry. There’s a picture, that he ran through an algorithm. He’s done nothing original, that required even a modicum of skill to do. Zero creative effort, zero creative ability.
Any fuckwit could do what he did, almost accidentally.
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 24, 2014 8:45:25am |
If it’s a painting, he’s simply projecting an image on canvas and painting over it.
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BusyMonster Fri, Jan 24, 2014 12:26:49pm |
Ok one more time slowly people. He is George Zimmerman, who is so impatient and control-freakish that he whips out his gun whenever he feels threatened.
To picture this frightened, stupid mouse of a man taking time and consideration to carefully re-paint a photograph, just that shabby non-artistic task, is simply ludicrous.
Zimmerman’s public life so far has demonstrated to us that he is not interested in the depth or process of life, but in the most superficial, immediate results. Art takes work, and garners respect.
Fucking off with Photoshop was old news 20 years ago. There is no debate here as to whether we’re looking at art. We are not. We are either looking at #1 a desperate effort to leave something other than a tombstone in his wake, or #2 some despicable and stupid money-laundering scheme that will eventually get him in even more trouble than he already is.
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Skip Intro Fri, Jan 24, 2014 1:25:07pm |
AP Tells George Zimmerman To Quit Using Its Photo For His Painting
The Associated Press has sent a cease-and-desist letter to George Zimmerman’s attorney, arguing a painting he released of the special prosecutor who charged him with the murder of Trayvon Martin was copied directly from an AP photo.
“George Zimmerman clearly directly copied an AP photo to create his painting of Florida State Attorney Angela Corey,” the AP’s Director of Media Relations, Paul Colford, told TPM Friday in an e-mailed statement. “The AP has sent a cease-and-desist letter asserting its copyright in the photo to the lawyer who recently represented Zimmerman. That lawyer has responded, and though she no longer represents Mr. Zimmerman, she will be forwarding the letter to him today.”
Why do they keep referring to this digital pile of crap as a “painting”? It’s a digitally manipulated image, sent to Walmart or Costco to be printed on a canvas paper so George can then sign it.
George and his equally ethically challenged brother have really screwed the pooch this time. If only the creator of the first image he stole would sue, George would be double-plus-good screwed.
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